The Dupixent Commercial with the Fat Gay Dude Bugs the Shit out of Me

Okay, so it starts out with him running to give his kid the lunch box they forgot (handed off to him by his husband) before the school bus drives away. Then none of the rest of the commercial makes sense:

- Seconds later, he's playing soccer in the street with the neighborhood kids and there's a net. Why are these kids not going to school? How did the net get up there with a school bus going down the street? How did the school bus not plow over the kids and the net?

- Then he bounces over to a garage sale. Who the fuck holds a garage sale in the middle of the week? And who are all these unemployed people at the garage sale? And who sells an ancient snorkeling helmet? And all he does is randomly touch shit before he bounces off again. Why the fuck isn't he working? Why isn't his husband working? Why isn't he thinner with all the bouncing around the neighborhood he does?

God, I hate this commercial. God, this pandemic has me paying way too much attention to stupid shit like this.

Those “Muriel’s Wedding” type race-walking bitches barely tolerate him. They’ve likely tried changing the route.

It's literally just like every other pharmaceutical ad.

When he goes to the garage sale, he lifts his finger up at some dude, and the dude looks at him like, "Who the fuck are you and what the fuck does that mean?"

R4 You'd think with all that running around his neighborhood and leaping over bus stop benches and kicking soccer balls, he'd lose those moobs.

R6 OP says as much in her post.

R3–The Dude is making the “Oh, have you found a treasure?” face.

Oh snap, r7. You really slammed me. I am shamed.

I just knew eventually someone would start a thread about this commercial, I just knew it.

Have you been dying to start one, R11?

No, I didn't care whether one was started or not, but what took so long OP?

R6 - "God, this pandemic has me paying way too much attention to stupid shit like this."

They cut off the ending where a gang of roving Eldergays beat him to death with casserole dishes.

I used a fondue pot, r15.

Is Brian DePalma directing commercials now?

R17 It's just missing the slow motion part.

It creeps me out...the neighborhood Uncle Pervy.

I actually DIG his face/hair . . . but he's so SWISHY!

Datalounge hates gays, yay!

After years and years of complaining that gays are under-represented by mainstream media, we finally start getting commercials that actually feature gays portrayed as normal people so ...

of course Datalounge hates this.

I hate to sound dense but which one was gay?

R21 Just the prancing ones

The kid is taking the bus to Sunday Hebrew school, silly.

R29 Then it plows into all the gentiles playing soccer.

Just where is this typical, happy go lucky American neighborhood located?

He's all muscle and very strong just like he-man Chris Hayes.

But when is he going to transition?

"Dupixent. For when life starts to make sense."

OP - thanks for your hilarious post!!! You captured everything I think when that damn commercial is on!

"You have overthought."

No that was the producers, who put this through 33 focus groups before deciding he wasn't too gay; too Hispanic; too skinny/fat; too blue collar, too white collar; too handsome, too plain; too wealthy, too poor...

Apparently there are three different commercials of the same product, all showing gay couples.

There's a meal service commercial with a young queen that always makes me laugh. I don't know why. It's so stupidly winking when it really doesn't have to be in this day and age. And it always comes across like this young gay actor got this gig and they did it in one take after the director said "just do gay. Run with it." He could be somebody, but I wouldn't now.

"it's got more layers than a backhanded compliment from my dad." Lol.

R39 Dude, that's the guy from Queer Eye. Of course, he's gonna gay out.

I wasn't complaining. I like the commercial. I assumed he was someone and I didn't know.

Has anyone mentioned him cheating at hopscotch yet? This commercial could literally be an episode of MST3K. Or whatever equivalent might be today. Maybe a reaction video?

It’s still running !

Must be working well with the intended audience.

Are gays especially Asthmatic ?

Silly twat, Trix are for kids. This has to be one of the most brain dead posts ever. There is clearly no time frame involved in the commercial where ten discrete events happen in the space of one minute. Fucking Millennials are truly brain dead turds on sticks. Jesus twatcakes.

[quote]I think he's attractive.

I think he's very fuckable...

Are your two dads Gay Bears?

Do they have sex with other Gay Bears?

Have you seen them naked?

It's a commercial, not a documentary.

OP is frustrated that once again, her caftan is sticking to the couch.

OP is just jealous that he's also fat but not starring in a commercial.

These commercial should be more realistic. Like show the guy wheezing on the couch front of his TV shoveling fruit pies and biscuits in his mouth in between screeching at his kids to shut the fuck up.

What are they the ones who had the fat guy who danced while he was doing everything like mowing the lawn?

That was annoying.

FAT boy needs something that prevents SNACK attacks.

He isn't overly fey. It's positive representation even if shilling for big Pharma.

The fat guy 'dancing' and shaking his flabby can all over the office and while mowing his lawn was hilarious and cringe-y, for sure.

He's like the positive peggy of the neighborhood, the one who has her nose in everyones business.

You mean,

Gladys "Happy Butt" Kravitz

[quote]Gladys "Happy Butt" Kravitz

"Gladys like to do anal..."

"Me, not so much with her...I'm retired."

How do we know he’s gay? The kid said “thanks, Dad!” to the white guy, not the asthmatic. Maybe they’re neighbors?

R59 Really? Did you see her sashaying around the neighborhood?

R59 He's in the front yard of his house at the beginning of the commercial, then a guy comes running out of the front door of the house. I don't know how much more obvious this can be.

Why do you even pay that much attention to any ad? I've probably seen this one, but I don't remember it because I tune out the ads.

Yesterday was a bad day. He ended-up black + blue and Billy called him a fag.

[quote]He's in the front yard of his house at the beginning of the commercial, then a guy comes running out of the front door of the house. I don't know how much more obvious this can be.

Apparently R59 has never seen Gay Bears.

He does come off as a prisspot. He's the gay Karen of the gayborhood. I mean that queen barely even looks at the crap on the garage sale table, he's a phony.

This was filmed in Australia and they had to completely dub Ray Chong with an American accent.

That explains a lot of why it seems so odd.

In the latest version they’ve waaay overdone the dubbing.

He is too fat for the outfit. The sweater and pants are too tight for the body type, which accentuates his moobs, pot belly, and skinny legs. I think in a different outfit he might look better, but ewww. I think Ryan Phillipe should have been cast.

He annoys me. Who invited him to play soccer?

I think he's cute. Who's had him?

R42, I love the way he goes all DGAF in the middle of the hopscotch.

After months of seeing this thread I finally watched it and I'm baffled by the people who don't get it. It seems pretty obvious that each little scenario is meant to be taken as a different time of day. You see this kind of conceit in musicals all the time.

R74 How do you come to that conclusion? It's meant to be shot as one continuous take.

I'm sorry, if you're the kind of person who watches this and thinks "it's all happening in real time, this is meant to be a literal representation of sixty seconds of this man's life" then I can't help you.

This commercial is like the bad regional theater attempt to do the same thing "Gotta Dance" did in Singin' in the Rain.

R77 So the kids have been in the street playing soccer all day? And the sun hasn't shifted in the sky all day? And the dude's been wandering the streets all day?

Sure, Jan.

[quote] It seems pretty obvious that each little scenario is meant to be taken as a different time of day. You see this kind of conceit in musicals all the time.

Oh really? So that is why in the soccer "scene" we see the back of the school bus as it drives away AND can see the yard sale in the distance?

The commercial is meant to be a montage, a blend of different situations seamlessly stitched together to put across the message that the asthma product will do what it's intended to do regardless of your activity at any given time or day of the week.

As mentioned above, OP is too literal. Some people don't take kindly to concepts.

R80 originally used the word "conceit," so you just know she's a pissy theatre queen, lounging in her caftan and sniffing at anyone who would dare question her vast knowledge of all things entertainment-related.

The short, chubby bitch in the billowing pants and blazer is just as annoying as this queen.

R82 Who's the chubby bitch in the billowing pants?

There is another Dupixent commercial, R83, this time with the short, chubby bitch flouncing around instead of moob man.

I like the commerical with the chubby bitch better. It seems better made - the cuts are not nearly as obvious to me as the ones in the commerical with the fat gay dude.

R85 Those pants! My God, those pants!

R85 Damn, what a bitch she is! Her friends throw her a surprise party and she drives away from 'em on her scooter.

He's terrible at hopscotch!

R88 The moobs and the gut make it difficult.

Mr. Morales grabbed my wee-wee in the alley.

Ray Chong Nee is straight and married with children.

I wish i had his energy, its perfect for a cocaine commercial.

Nee is very handsome elsewhere. Good looking mixed race guy. And he is straight. This is real acting: to play a fat, insufferable nelly husbear so well.

R94 Please post a link of his other work because he is very "convincing" as the nelly husbear.

the one at r85 is somewhat similar but somehow doesn't bother as much.

There's something about the hopscotch guy commercial that just stands out as annoying.

The character is annoying but the commercial is a lot of fun to watch.

I'm bothered by the whole set up of this commercial. I don't really care about him being an oddly shaped, inauthentic, voice-dubbed queen.

What's most annoying to me is that this commercial reminds me of those people who always wanna be in the middle of everything but they don't want to do any of the actual work. They are in the way and everything they do is half-ass! The only legit thing he did was give his son the lunch (which he probably shoulda been his focus anyway instead of putting signs in the yard).

If he was on my street inserting himself in my activities I'd tell him to fuck off!

Lol - I love this thread. We need a new awards category - best performancd as a “fat insufferable nelly husbear”. I think it’s the shirt that bothers me most. It’s a horrible choice for chunky moob man - but I guess they wanted to emphasize he was overweight like their target market.

I don’t believe he’s as active as they are trying to make him seem.

Wasn't there a Dupixent with 2 cute gay guys and a piñata? A blonde twink and a muscular/heavy guy with a great smile. That one always caught my attention.

Based on his twitter feed, Ray Chong Nee is a real Debbie downer.

It bothers me when he walks on the bench.

It's public property. Get your fucking shoes OFF the bench.

I would have gone totally Karen with him over that.

I posted above that I think he's handsome. He is so on Instagram and in other photos. A little chunky but that's probably an ethnic body thing. He's indigenous and something else, I'm guessing Chinese.

On Instagram he has a photo of wife and children which he identifies as such. On Twitter along with He/Him he gives his pronouns as They/They. I would guess that's because it's now a view in some circles that we should all be moving toward They/Them pronouns.

I thought he was Mexican American. He’s Asian? And straight? At least now I can stand to watch this commercial - which is on ALL the time on ABC streaming - knowing I have fellow sufferers (of the commercial, not asthma or diabetes or whatever Dupixent is for)

He looks like he's part Filipino to me or some Pacific Island nation.

He's supposed to be a little overweight. They're trying to sell this asthma drug to middle America, where most middle aged people are overweight. So, he's supposed to represent them.

I think it's an effective commercial. It's LGBTQ positive in a subtle way because its easy to not notice he has a husband.

Something I notice in both Dupixent commercials is that when they start to tell you the side effects the main character says "And here's something important!" and then stops talking to the camera. In the one with the frau she puts her motorcycle helmet on and with the nelly husbear that's when he turns away from the camera and starts inspecting the yardsale. They both list the side effects in voiceover only.

I wonder why they do that? Is it like to emphasize that "this isn't part of the salespitch"? Or is it like giving the audience permission to tune out during this part? Because the ads get WAY more boring during these sections where the person on screen is not looking at us and not speaking to us, the audience.

[quote]I wonder why they do that? Is it like to emphasize that "this isn't part of the salespitch"? Or is it like giving the audience permission to tune out during this part? Because the ads get WAY more boring during these sections where the person on screen is not looking at us and not speaking to us, the audience.

My guess is that they do that voiceover because the commerical may air in different countries and what they are required to disclose may vary from country to country. Similarly, if new info comes in and they need to change the disclosure information, they can do it via the voiceover without having to film an entirely new commercial.

I know beyond a shadow of doubt he’s wearing Spanx for men. There is no jiggle.

r45 is correct. this is an example of about a week in the neighborhood, the yard sale is supposed to represent weekend.....they did make a specific choice by not having his shirt/outfit change which they definitely considered. was probably written that way but the transitions would have been too costly.

I agree with everything you said R107 and R108. I would only add that they also don't want you tuning in during that part. That is when they are talking about all the nasty shit the drug can do to you.

Even though they use the same dubbed voice, they don't even fake like the actor is saying those things. They want you to remember his energy and how excited he was to be on the medication and none of the awful stuff associated with it.

[quote]The Dupixent Commercial with the Fat Gay Dude Bugs the Shit out of Me

Honey. We worry.

This commercial is back on TV in heavy rotation, just to trigger us all.

Pharmaceutical ads are the worst. Why do they even exist? Do folks go to their doctors and ask for these drugs? Don’t most of us have to settle for generic versions anyway? Why am I subject to these disturbingly cliched characterizations of the life of a fictional rando dealing with chronic illness?

#triggered

[quote]Do folks go to their doctors and ask for these drugs?

Yes. That is the purpose of the ads.

[quote]This commercial is back on TV in heavy rotation, just to trigger us all.

Actor must be happy! They get a lot more money when the ad is extended beyond its original 13 week rotation or brought back as in this case.

When I was a kid they were not allowed to advertise prescription meds on TV, R115. Now they are all you see.

We're supposed to trust our doctors implicitly and never question them, but the TV ads are constantly exhorting people to go and suggest treatments themselves.

We need to see more of his husband.

I must admit to surprise that if they were going to have an actor run around in a tight shirt why on earth would the pick a chubby with moobs.

The commercial is literally exhausting to watch. I suffer with chronic anemia and frequently have very low iron levels. I could never do all of that shit in 30 seconds.

You’re an asshole & an idiot, OP.

[quote]if they were going to have an actor run around in a tight shirt why on earth would the pick a chubby with moobs.

He's supposed to represent a typical middle-aged American male. Most middle aged men are overweight.

R116 LOL Sure. That makes sense. But I don't think anyone would want HIM to fuck THEM! LOL

Nothing certain DLers hate worse than gays on TV, or in movies, or books, or YouTube videos, or TikToks, etc.

Threads like this are why I just can’t quit you, DL.

I hate how the husband who forgot to give the kid lunch is screaming, "woahhhhhhhh!"

I hate when billow-pants bitch gets on that scooter. Fat chicks on scooters really bug me.

I think he's kind of adorable but apparently, the actor is a sanctimonious cunt. They chose him because he's supposed to read as a typical middle-aged, or middle-aged adjacent American man. While more Latinos and Hispanics are (finally) being featured in ads, it's kind of odd they picked him. He has very dark features, he's definitely south American, maybe even Puerto Rican. You'd think as ruthlessly strategic as pharma ad companies are, they would get someone with a more, neutral skin tone, (the way they always get midwestern-looking white people, or light-skinned black people so as not to potentially isolate the viewer.) Then again, maybe their research shows that Hispanic Americans are a primary demographic suffering from atopic dermatitis? Anyway, he's kind of cute in a little bear daddy kind of way.

Is the black woman who gets on a scooter in that one drug commercial the same woman playing a majorette and leading a weird high school band in the Jardiance commercial? That commercial is bizarre in so, so many ways.

Some of you bitches haven't been around other humans in months, if not years, and it SHOWS.

Grease fire - middle-aged adjacent

[quote]I'm sorry, if you're the kind of person who watches this and thinks "it's all happening in real time, this is meant to be a literal representation of sixty seconds of this man's life" then I can't help you.

I notice a lot of DLers seem overly literal and unimaginative. They can only digest simple narratives in basic forms, and fixate on innocuous details or non-traditional representations. They grew up in an era of actors playing doctors in white coats shilling Tylenol during "Cagney and Lacey," so this level of theatrics and creativity for a pharmaceutical is just too "extra" for their tastes..

Help me jump all over my neighborhood

The actor's name is Ray Chong Nee. He is Pacific Islander/Polynesian/Samoan from New Zealand. He is not Hispanic. And yes the voice is dubbed to sound like a White man from the Midwestern United States.

R137 Midwest accent? Are they trying to give him the voice of the Wrigleyville Cumdump?

R138 I don't know who the Wrigleyville Cumdump is, but don't most White men from the midwest have a twang that makes them sound like they have cum trapped in the back of their throat?

R140 YES! 2 beautiful hot guys, and a piñata, how can you go wrong? The smile on the blindfolded guy....what I'd do to him!

R140 And I love the smirk on the fat black guy - looks like he just saw a big dick he wants to swallow.

r142 his tits are something to behold

R143 HAHAHAHA!

Everyone in the commercial was attractive except the fat man. Even the women were cute (in commercials focused on a bunch of men the women are often sows).

The Austedo bitch in the grocery store bugs me.

That-guy -with -the- wiggle -in -his -walk -whatever -he was -doing was pretty irritating too.

I didn't even notice the husband handing him a lunch. Whenever I see the commercial I think would I have sex with that guy or not. If I was drinking and it was dark those moobs would look more like a buff chest. Then I remind myself. Learn from your mistakes. Once that shirt comes off even in the dark. . . well you all know what happens.

I didn't bother coming back to this thread last month when it was active because choads like R81 were too busy trying to start fights over nothing, and I see he went so far as to complain that I used the word "conceit." Then he blamed someone else for it, because he's not that bright.

This is Datalounge. I've seen "brouhaha" used unironically over 100 times on here, and I'm supposed to feel bad for using the word "conceit"? Please.

R148 No. There are plenty of things you should feel bad about. Using the word "conceit" is just one of them.

I want to nurse on that big strong chest and kiss those big biceps.

This annoying ad has the same kinda feel is WASHINGTON HEIGHTS and HAMILTON.

Moobs, R150! You want to nurse on the fat guy's moobs!

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